People aren't realizing anything. They're suckers who are being fed a lie by a wealthy-elite. It has long been said that the right-wing is a marriage of the super-rich and the super-stupid. The super-rich lie to the super-stupid in the effort to enlist their support for the financial pursuits of the super-rich.
Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil
By Sahil Kapur
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 -- 10:22 am
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/climate-skeptic-group-nipcc-extensive-ties-exxonmobil/
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Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science
Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
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‘Climategate’ emails: Scientists defend science
Renfrey Clarke
28 November 2009
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/820/42157
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Antarctic ice shelf collapse: climate change and capitalism
8 April 2009
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a08.shtml
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BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER:
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
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Has the Climate Changed Already?
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/has-the-climate-changed.html
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Science untarnished by "Climategate"
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AP3NI20091126
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Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/talk-of-global-cooling-based-on-bogus-statistics.ars
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Hacked climate emails used to attack scientists
By Chris Talbot
9 December 2009
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/clim-d09.shtml
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Proof of climate change 'unequivocal'
Published: 02 Feb 2007
http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/proof-of-climate-change-unequivocal